Electric Utilities

Electric utilities monitor congressional action on a variety of issues, including clean air regulation and waste storage, but since the early 1990s the industry has focused most of its attention on what has become a perennial issue for Congress -- electricity deregulation.

Deregulation would dissolve the government-sanctioned monopoly that electric utilities currently enjoy over the limited territories in which they operate, and allow multiple electricity providers to compete for the same customers. Several states have already enacted some form of deregulation. [Read more Background]

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Data for the current election cycle were released by the Federal Election Commission on Monday, June 17, 2013

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